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TIL 12% of Americans think Joan of Arc was Noah's wife, from the Bible.

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ANQo4 TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity.
VgnB TIL Stereotypes are more valid than most social psychological hypotheses
OGDkX TIL about Mark Zborowski, an NKVD agent who infiltrated Trotsky's organization in Paris, murdered Trotsky's son, moved to the US where he continued to infiltrate Trotsky's organization. He joined Harvard as a researcher, was later tried and convicted as a spy, and then resumed his academic career.
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DQvpP TIL that Australia has opened an underwater museum inside the Great Barrier Reef